Ivan Vasilyevich Turkenich[a] (15 January 1920 – 14 August 1944) was a Soviet partisan, one of the leaders of the underground anti-Nazi organization Young Guard, which operated in Krasnodon district during World War II between 1941 and 1944.

Turkenich was born on 15 January 1920, in Novyi Liman, Voronezh Oblast in a family of Ukrainian ethnicity.

In one of its engagements he was captured by Germans, escaped from imprisonment and joined the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Krasnodon.

When the Young Guard was compromised and most of its members arrested by Nazis, Turkenich managed to escape.

On 13 August 1944, Turkenich was mortally wounded in a battle near Głogów Małopolski, Poland.